Publications
Publications by Research Area
2017
Schlein, Bruce, Carolyn Szum, Nan Zhou, Jing Ge, and Helen He."Lessons from Europe, North America, and Asia: Financing Models that are Facilitating Building Energy Efficiency at Scale."ECEEE 2017
(2017).
Szum, Carolyn, Nan Zhou, Sara Lisauskas, Madeline Frieze, Xi Chen, and Zhiming Pan."Lessons from the United States and China for Increasing Transparency and Harmonizing Measurement and Verification Practices in the Buildings Sector."ECEEE Summer Study 2017
(2017).
Pang, Xiufeng, Mary Ann Piette, and Nan Zhou."Characterizing variations in variable air volume system controls."Energy and Buildings
135 (2017) 166 - 175. DOI
Ge, Jing, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and Carolyn Szum."Accelerating Energy Efficiency in China's Existing Commercial Buildings, Part 1: Barrier Analysis."
(2017).
Liu, Xu, Jing Ge, Wei Feng, and Nan Zhou."An Overview of the U.S. Better Buildings Initiative as a Model for Other Countries."
(2017).
2016
Nachtrieb, Robert, David Fridley, Wei Feng, Nihan Karali, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, Jimmy Tran, and Carolyn Szum."CERC-BEE Impact Model."
(2016).
McNeil, Michael A, Wei Feng, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nina Khanna, Jing Ke, and Nan Zhou."Energy efficiency outlook in China’s urban buildings sector through 2030."Energy Policy
97 (2016) 532 - 539. DOI
Khanna, Nina, David Fridley, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, and Stephanie Ohshita."Estimating China’s Urban Energy Demand and CO2 Emissions: A Bottom-up Modeling Perspective."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2016).
Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Ellen M Franconi, Jon Creyts, Lijing Gu, and Jianguo Zhang."Policy Roadmap to 50% Energy Reduction in Chinese Buildings by 2050."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2016).
Liu, Ping, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Spencer M Dutton, Ming Jin, Lingwei Zheng, and Nan Zhou."Towards the Optimal Development of Low-Carbon Community Energy Systems."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2016).
Ohshita, Stephanie, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Lixuan Hong, and Nina Khanna."BEST Cities: Software User Guide."
(2016).
Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Nina Khanna, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Gang He, John Romankiewicz, and Hu Min."Low-Carbon City Policy Databook."
(2016).
Shah, Nihar, Nikit Abhyankar, Won Young Park, Amol A Phadke, Saurabh Diddi, Deepanshu Ahuja, P.K Mukherjee, and Archana Walia."Cost-Benefit of Improving the Efficiency of Room Air Conditioners (Inverter and Fixed Speed) in India."
(2016).
Zhang, Jingjing, Nan Zhou, Adam Hinge, Wei Feng, and Shicong Zhang."Governance strategies to achieve zero-energy buildings in China."Building Research & Information
44.5-6 (2016) 604-618. DOI
Feng, Wei, Chris Marnay, Nan Zhou, Yan Ding, and Zhaoxia Wang."Influence of Occupancy-oriented Interior Cooling Load on Building Cooling Load."Applied Thermal Engineering
96 (2016) 411-420. DOI
2015
Wetter, Michael, Marco Bonvini, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Equation-based languages – A new paradigm for building energy modeling, simulation and optimization."Energy and Buildings
117 (2015) 290-300. DOI
Cao, Meichun, Pablo J Rosado, Zhaohui Lin, Ronnen M Levinson, and Dev Millstein."Cool Roofs in Guangzhou, China: Outdoor Air Temperature Reductions during Heat Waves and Typical Summer Conditions."Environmental Science & Technology
49.24 (2015) 14672 - 14679. DOI
Zhao, Shanguo, Wei Feng, Shicong Zhang, Jing Hou, Nan Zhou, and Mark D Levine."Energy Savings and Cost-benefit Analysis of the New Commercial Building Standard in China."Procedia Engineering
121 (2015) 317-324. DOI
Lee, Eleanor S, Christoph Gehbauer, Brian E Coffey, Andrew McNeil, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Integrated control of dynamic facades and distributed energy resources for energy cost minimization in commercial buildings."Solar Energy
122 (2015) 1384–1397. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Cheng Li, and Da Yan."Updates to the China Design Standard for Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings."Energy Policy
87 (2015) 187-198. DOI
Yan, Da, William O'Brien, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaohang Feng, H. H Burak Gunay, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Ardeshir Mahdavi."Occupant Behavior Modeling for Building Performance Simulation: Current State and Future Challenges."Energy and Buildings
107 (2015) 264-278. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Simona D'Oca, William J. N Turner, and Sarah C Taylor-Lange."An Ontology to Represent Energy-related Occupant Behavior in Buildings Part I: Introduction to the DNAs Framework."Building and Environment
92 (2015) 764-777. DOI
Shah, Nihar, Max Wei, Virginie E Letschert, and Amol A Phadke."Benefits of Leapfrogging to Superefficiency and Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants in Room Air Conditioning."
(2015).
Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Michael Bendewald, and Ellen M Franconi."Building Energy Codes in China: Recommendations for Development and Enforcement."2015 Annual Urban Sustainability Conference
(2015).
Mashayekh, Salman, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, C Birk Jones, Matthew Robinson, Hans Barsun, Leila Ghanbari, and Andrea A Mammoli."Software-as-a-Service Optimal Scheduling of New Mexico Buildings."European Council on an Energy Efficient Economy 2015 Summer Study
(2015).